Photo used: Day at Tubbs Hill, 2016, Nancy Fu
My interview was influenced by Ready Player One because throughout the book it mentions a lot of technology from the 80’s, I thought it would be interesting to interview someone from an older generation to compare how much technology has developed over time. When I listened to the StoryCorps projects I realized a lot of the interviews were anecdotes from the past. So, with Marty’s interview I decided that when she would explain a story it would be better than her just answering a few questions of mine. Since a story is different for every person, however, anyone can answer a simple question. So, with that I had decided the best way was for a combination of anecdotes and answers. At first, my interview was very broad I asked many questions related to the basic use of technology as well as how it was like using technology growing up. The raw audio of the interview that was recorded had actually taken 42 minutes, however, it was the easiest way to get Marty to talk to me naturally and I had gotten a lot of stories out of the interview. I conducted the interview with the flow of her answers, sometimes I would let her talk about her past, other times I would ask questions following to what she had asked. I feel like I have a better understanding on Adobe Audition as well as audio recording and editing. It was hard at first when I was recording because I had never done it before, however, after a few test recordings I found it to be much easier. Editing the audio would be frustrating at times, however, after completing project 4 I realized that editing audio wasn’t too bad at all it just took a lot of time to make everything flow smoothly. Using my smartphone to record the audio was good. Yet, I felt like if I had used a better mic I would get to pick up the sounds of the bus driving in the beginning of the intro a lot better than what it is on the audio track. I did use a creative commons sound in my interview as background music. I had found a calming piano soundtrack by Podington Bear called Up Up Up:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Piano_IV_Cinematic/Up_Up_Up
I was able to apply the audio soundtrack because of it having a creative commons license that allows me to adapt the audio.
Here is the interview:
https://soundcloud.com/nancy-fu-131009221/an-interview-with-marty